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Re: when do we use blow and blows

Did you have some other differences in use in mind? If so, please elaborate.

2) How are you at (doing) accounts?

Ya why do we say This fan blow very hard and not This fan blows very hard..i am confused with this differnce .
Also in the sencond sentence the person to whom i want to ask the question doesn't studies accounts any more he has completed his studies few yeras before so am i still suppose to" How were you at accounts."

Re: when do we use blow and blows

Originally Posted by tough

Ya why do we say This fan blow very hard and not This fan blows very hard..i am confused with this differnce .
Also in the sencond sentence the person to whom i want to ask the question doesn't studies accounts any more he has completed his studies few yeras before so am i still suppose to" How were you at accounts."

We don't say "This fan blow very hard" - who told you that we do?! "This fan" is 3rd person singular and takes "blows"

If the person in the second question no longer studies accounting, then you can say "How were you at accounts/accountancy/accounting (depending on the name of the actual course)?" Of course, this would only work if you were already talking about the time when he was a student. If you made this the first line of a conversation, I don't think it would necessarily be understood, and you would need to say something like "When you were a student, were you any good at accounting?"